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Nivedita Menon

Professor of Political Thought at Jawaharlal Nehru University (JNU), Delhi, and leading South Asian feminist scholar

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Nivedita Menon teaches Political thought at Jawaharlal Nehru University, Delhi. Her previous books include Recovering Subversion: Feminist Politics Beyond the Law, an edited volume Sexualities (2007, Power and Contestation: India after 1989 (co-authored with Aditya Nigam). An active commentator on the blog kafila.org, she has been active with citizen's forums in Delhi around secularism, worker's and women’s rights, sexuality and in opposition to the nuclear bomb.

Born1960 · India

Notable works Recovering Subversion: Feminist Politics Beyond the LawPower and Contestation: India after 1989Seeing Like a Feminist